Attaching creditor's rights in personal property · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 6203. Attaching creditor's rights in personal property. Where a plaintiff has delivered an order of attachment to a sheriff, the plaintiff's rights in a debt owed to the defendant or in an interest of the defendant in personal property against which debt or property a judgment may be enforced, are superior to the extent of the amount of the attachment to the rights of any transferee of the debt or property, except:
1. a transferee who acquired the debt or property before it was levied upon for fair consideration or without knowledge of the order of attachment; or
2. a transferee who acquired the debt or property for fair consideration after it was levied upon without knowledge of the levy while it was not in the possession of the sheriff.
Once the plaintiff delivers an attachment order to the sheriff, the plaintiff’s rights in attachable personal property or a debt owed to the defendant are superior, up to the attachment amount, to a transferee’s rights, except:
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Clerk in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Clerk: Civil Practice Law and Rules; Volume 1 — Your Career: Civil Practice in Plain English.